Question
This is a question about how to work with koans.
And in any case, without the opportunity or possibility of spending more time meditating
than getting up early every morning to do zazen and attending one or two sesshins a year?
How can I get feedback when my Zen master, so to speak, refuses to answer me during sesshins because, according to him, it is more or less useless to work with koans if you do not live in a monastery?
I would be very grateful for your advice.
Anonymous
Master Kosen’s answer
I have already answered this kind of question about koans; look at the list of mondos.
You say “work on koans,” but it is precisely when you stop doing something like working on them that the answer to your question appears.
Kosen